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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. Warehouse Automation. Content Summary: Honeywell and Carnegie Mellon Partner to Bring AI to the Warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. As a result, the Olympics will take place without spectators.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Seattle startup Flexe pulls in $14 million from investors (The Seattle Times). Booking a flight has been electronic for 50 years, but the cargo on airplanes, trucks, and ships is still booked manually. Freightos Launches First International Freight Marketplace to Power $2 Trillion Worth of U.S. Annual Imports.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2-6, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door (TechCrunch). Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times). Amazon is secretly building an ‘Uber for trucking’ app, setting its sights on a massive $800 billion market (Business Insider).

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The Amazonification of Logistics

Techgistics

In 2016, third-party sellers accounted for approximately 50% of Amazon’s unit sales and are also Amazon’s second largest source of revenue - $23 billion in 2016 a 43% gain on 2015. Amazon Fresh A grocery delivery service that started in Seattle in 2007 and now operates in 16 cities.

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The Year the Ports Stole Christmas? Hopefully Not.

Logistics Viewpoints

The photos of the cargo ships at anchor waiting for berth at the ports of LA and Long Beach certainly generate an emotional response, “what in those containers will affect my work or personal consumption plans?” Source: Ports of LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma. The LA and Long Beach Container Vessels.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 14-18, 2015)

Talking Logistics

In this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon in talks to lease 20 jets to launch air-cargo business (The Seattle Times). Seattle passes law letting Uber, Lyft drivers unionize (Reuters). Conceptually, other retailers could store goods in Amazon’s warehouses, then have Amazon manage the entire delivery operation.